Mike Battaglia @battaglia01@qoto.org

Hi everyone, happy to announce I am now an endorsed featured artist from Lumatone keyboard, who has just an artist feature of me. I share my my musical journey, microtonal ideas, the “blue note keys” on the Lumatone, how to use the 11th harmonic in Hey Jude, and more. Will be the first of many. Hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMI6xkljDh

Hi everyone, got some music for you all! This is my version of "Scarborough Fair" on the Lumatone Keyboard in 31-TET. It's the first of three performances we'll be releasing in the next few weeks as part of the Lumatone Artist Series. Hope you enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKB1_gvhLE

@mark @atomicpoet realistically, how much funding would be required to make this happen?

Man, did Twitter really ban links to Mastodon?

@ColinTheMathmo and thus a comathematician turns cotheorems into ffee.

@skdh@nerdculture.de Thank you for having me Sabine, was fun!

@freemo or maybe @trinsec would know...

I can't see people from types.pl on here. Have they blocked qoto? Or has qoto just not added them to the set of instances it federates with? @freemo

@Ryle @freemo Well, like I said I'm pretty new here, so I don't know what's best on the technical side...

My 2 cents: there are lots of great people moving here from Twitter that I am following. Those people will want to keep posting books, art, music, etc that they make and etc, just like they did on there. Sometimes that is mixed in w/ some kind of Patreon, or they will announce a book they've written that is for sale or whatever. It seems unnecessary to put that restriction on that kind of thing into a huge fediverse-wide rule set. It also doesn't seem to have much to do with the main issue re: hate speech and all of that. I'd just drop it

But I'm new here so who knows what's best.

@freemo @Ryle

I think most of the changes are good. I'd probably just ditch the commercial requirement entirely. If some individual instance wants to have that requirement then that's alright, but I don't think it should be a federation-wide rule. Like you were saying, there isn't much for artists on here to do except for promote their stuff, which should probably be encouraged if anything. Instances primarily for artists should be permitted to let their artists post w/o special tags if they want to. Same with STEM authors promoting books.

@freemo @Ryle OK sounds good. I saw Ryle was about to make a merge request already so maybe will leave that to him

@freemo @Ryle yes I meant this "UFOI" thing. There are now a bunch of famous or quasi famous celebrities on Mastodon, including STEM people - if John Baez, Eugenia Cheng, Sabine Hossenfelder, George Takei, etc write a book I would want them to be allowed to post a link for me to buy it... They probably will anyway. Many of these people barely know how to use Mastodon and I doubt they even know what unlisted means or how to do it.

Of course QOTO can have its own rules for its own instance if you want it to be non-commercial, but I don't think it should be a federation wide rule, also for the reasons Ryle said above. I'm not sure if my suggestion would be just to get rid of that rule entirely, or if there is some way to reword it. Maybe I will leave that to Ryle as I am still pretty new here

@freemo what does "post unlisted" mean? From

"All accounts which engage in commercial activity as their primary purpose or posts explicitly intended to advertise must be posted unlisted."

Also I would probably word that in such a way that it doesn't also mean content creators, artists, musicians, looking to promote their work...

@seanmcarroll I've always wondered how likely these things are to happen.

For instance, with ranked voting systems, you can have that A is ranked ahead of B, and B is ranked ahead of C which is ranked ahead of A. Thus, we have kind of a three way tie. Clearly *any* deterministic way to break this tie will involve a "dictator." It's the same as if you have a perfectly split 50/50 election in FPTP.

Of course, you could flip a coin, but the "unrestricted domain" axiom of Arrow's theorem claims the result must be deterministic.

Anyway, the point is: this is exponentially less likely to happen as the population size increases. So wouldn't there be some "perfect enough" systems which have only a vanishingly small chance of giving any such result?

@skdh@nerdculture.de heh, I wanted to see if I could figure out what vowel it was from the formants. Maybe ɑ?

@trinsec makes sense! Thanks for explaining... Yeah, it's mostly for the local timelines. I guess it's possible to move an account from one server to another but not link two together?

Still pretty new to Mastodon - I have accounts on a few different instances. Is there some way to link these all together?

@robfielding this is great stuff and so are Clifford algebras in general. Also very relevant to tuning theory